Definition of blarney Blarney

blar•ney

We found 13 definitions of blarney from 8 different sources.

What does blarney mean?

Noun Plural: blarneys
blarney - flattery designed to gain favor
		coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk
		flattery excessive or insincere praise

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blarney (Noun)
Ability to talk constantly.
blarney (Noun)
Mindless chatter.
blarney (Noun)
Persuasive flattery or kind speech; smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.
blarney (Verb)
To beguile with flattery.

blarney (n.)
Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.
blarney (v. t.)
To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.

blarney
blar′ni, n. pleasing flattery or cajoling talk.—v.t. to beguile with such. [Blarney Castle, near Cork, where there is a stone difficult to reach, he who kisses which ever after possesses the gift of blarney.]

blarney
He has licked the blarney stone; he deals in the wonderful, or tips us the traveller. The blarney stone is a triangular stone on the very top of an ancient castle of that name in the county of Cork in Ireland, extremely difficult of access; so that to have ascended to it, was considered as a proof of perseverance, courage, and agility, whereof many are supposed to claim the honour, who never atchieved the adventure: and to tip the blarney, is figuratively used telling a marvellous story, or falsity; and also sometimes to express flattery. Irish. A BLASTED FELLOW or BRIMSTONE. An abandoned rogue or prostitute. Cant. To BLAST. To curse.